Many readers of On War have taken Clausewitz’s discussion of the ‘logic’ of war tending to ‘extremes’ and concluded that…
Category: Politics
From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.
By Donna McCormack, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey The Monster Network has been busy doing collective work…
The temptation to look longingly to idealised visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militant communal solidarity associated…
In 2008, I saw Jia Zhangke’s film Still Life, and it changed my life. I had never seen a film that had affected me so intensely and knew that, after that moment, I needed to research this director and his films further. What impacted me the most about Jia’s films were their emotional and affective qualities, and how they evoked feelings that lingered long after the films had ended.
Pop music and youth culture are known to be among the great British exports of the late twentieth century. Be…
International Relations
Q&A with Stephen Bowman, Author of The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945
Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s…
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
My article “Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria Through a Reform of the Legal and Institutional Frameworks” in African Journal of International…